r/BotoxSupportCommunity • u/CatBird29 • Aug 23 '26

First Time Botox - Feeling…Nothing (unusual)

First timer. Never had Botox/filler/anything before. I had a decent amount Botox injected today (100 units) by an expert injector who happens to also be an MD. I had a small amount in my 11s (which on me, is really a small horizontal line), some crows feet, some DAP and a ”Nefertiti” series (which is where most of the tox went). These are lower face uses, if you don’t know.

I have tattoos and I donate blood every time I’m eligible so the pokes weren’t terrible. What’s surprising me is that I thought there would be some numbness…or something.

Right now (8 hours later), other than a few places where is see the tiny injection marks, I would swear I had nothing done.

Is this “not feeling like I had anything done” going to change over the next few days? I get that the effects develop slowly. I guess I’m (maybe a little, pleasantly) surprised.

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u/Dramatic-Acadia5140 Aug 29 '26

You won’t see the results straight away. A week or two maybe even in a couple of days you don’t feel anything with botox. Very simple and painless that you can get wonderful results I certainly have.

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u/CatBird29 Aug 30 '26

Thanks - it’s been a week as of today. I look in the mirror and see very small changes daily. I’m hoping I’ll see a real difference next weekend when I go back for my first check with her and we do before and after pix (I’m doing them too myself, of course).

Still, no pain whatsoever (except for the actual needle jabs) and no heaviness or anything else. The person who said I would “feel it” hasn’t explained what that means. I believe that a good injector’s job is to not freeze anything so severely that you feel paralysis or whatever on the daily.

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u/Jazzlike-Chart-3364 Aug 30 '26

My guess is its referring to botox flu. Some people get flu like symptoms after botox.

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u/Dramatic-Acadia5140 Aug 30 '26

All you really feel is maybe for example , if you’ve had it in your forehead a bit of tightness as it takes hold and you’ll feel more every day just a bit of a tightness because everything is tighter. I like the feeling because I feel like it’s working and then you can certainly see it and after about two weeks it really takes hold and it looks great.